Correction appended, Jan. 30, 03:30 EST. It was the mayor of Osaka who said that comfort women served a “necessary” role, not the mayor of Hiroshima. The article has been amended to reflect this. Did ...

Yoon Mee-hyang was jailed and fined for embezzling funds meant for Korean 'comfort women' in a case that dragged on for several years The conviction of a South Korean politician for embezzling funds ...

Hwang Keum-ju was an 18 year-old foster-daughter of a wealthy Korean family when she received a draft notice from the Japanese government during its wartime occupation of Korea. She was sent to an ...

Catholics in South Korea have urged the Japanese government to offer a sincere apology to the comfort women forced into sexual slavery by its imperial army during World War II. The National Catholic ...

This week, women gathered in downtown Chicago to advocate for justice for one of the darkest and least talked about legacies of World War II, the forced slavery of “comfort women.” “Their stories are ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it would "wait and see" how sincere Japan was after South Korea and Japan reached a landmark agreement to resolve the issue of "comfort ...

A statue commemorating so-called comfort women during World War II is displayed in a residential area of Berlin in October 2020. (Markus Schreiber / Associated Press) On a quiet street corner in ...

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SEOUL (Reuters) - One test of the commitment by Japan and South Korea to resolve the "comfort women" issue may be the fate of a statue in front of Tokyo's embassy in Seoul. The bronze of a barefoot ...

On a quiet street corner in Berlin's Mitte district, a bronze statue of a young girl in a traditional Korean dress glitters in the sun. Her fists are clenched, her expression tense. She is seated but ...